Strike Truck drivers warn: "If they don't negotiate with us, it will get worse"
Second day of indefinite strike called by the self-employed and SMEs in the transport sector and promoted by the National Platform in Defense of Transport.
Second day with
a greater follow-up and with a greater number of incidents
and problems between the pickets and the trucks that wanted to work.
In fact, from the Platform, its president, Miguel Hernández, has declared that
"virtually all the trucks are stopped"
.
In fact, the employers of
transport and logistics companies UNO
has requested
"the immediate intervention of the Government to guarantee security and thus avoid a possible shortage",
given that many of the associated logistics companies have sent them that they have decided to stop before the danger of outbursts of violence that could end up with injuries, as happened last night in a confrontation between the police and some pickets that ended with one of the latter in the hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
The truth is that massive or not, the follow-up on this second day is being greater than last Monday given that there have been
slow marches of truckers and vehicles in Galicia, Navarra, the Basque Country
, and caravans of truckers
have also taken place in the
Community of Madrid
at low speed escorted by the Civil Guard and the National Police.
Mercamadrid, at 50%
In fact, this morning at Mercamadrid, the main food distribution center in the country, half of the usual merchandise was received due to the strike.
Sources from Mercamadrid have confirmed to Efe that, on this second day of the strike,
vegetables and fruits have been the most affected food segment, as they have received 60% less product compared to Tuesday of last week
.
The most affected fruit and vegetable origins for now, according to the same sources, are Almería, Canarias, Valencia, Murcia, Toledo, Granada and Málaga.
In the case of
fish
, the strike called by carriers is having more impact in Pontevedra, Murcia and Huelva.
Stopped the Port of Bilbao
The transporters' strike
in the Basque Country has completely paralyzed the activity
of loading and unloading goods by road at the Santurce (Vizaya) facilities
of the Port of Bilbao
.
"By road, no merchandise is leaving the port of Bilbao, no one works in Santurtzi, the port is stopped at 100%.
No truck
is loading ," a spokesperson for the Association of Self-Employed Carriers of the Port of Bilbao told EFE , TransportBilbao, which brings together 420 partners operating in the Port of Bilbao.
TransportBilbao, a member of Fenadismer, the
second most important organization of carriers in Spain, does not support this strike, but the associated autonomous carriers,
"out of fear of each other because they no longer give them life with the price of diesel"
, are unemployed this Tuesday .
This morning they held an assembly at the facilities of Aparkabisa, the Vizcaya road transport center, in which they did not make the decision to support the strike but, "as the situation is, we cannot tell the associates that go to work," he explained.
"Nobody is working, neither in Cantabria, nor in Asturias, nor in the Port of Valencia or Barcelona, and we are not going to send our associates to have any breakdown done on the trucks. It is the only thing that was missing
. "
This organization recognizes that this conflict "is going to be long and that there is not going to be a quick solution."
"People are not going to work at the market prices that exist today because in the end it is more expensive to put diesel than what you are going to charge for the trip. That is the problem that we all have," he concluded.
The government does not receive them
Apart from the rise in fuel, what the self-employed and transport SMEs are demanding is to have representation in the National Committee for Road Transport (CNTC) where the large CTEM or Fenadismer employers are represented but not hundreds of companies in the sector according to the National Platform for the Defense of Road Transport, organization calling the strike.
In fact, the Platform is not in the CNTC nor does the latter consider recognizing their right to be.
Hence, this Wednesday there is
a meeting between the CNTC and the Minister of Transport
, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez,
to try to find a solution to the rise in fuel prices, where there will be no representation of the truckers who are carrying stoppage out.
Hence, they insist that "if the Government does not receive us, the actions will intensify", since they emphasize that they group 85% of the companies in the transport sector.
The Cantabrian purse seine fleet, stopped all week
Another consequence of the carriers' strike is that the Cantabrian purse seine fleet, now focused on the coastal anchovies and mackerel, has decided not to go out to fish until next Monday.
The president of the Federation of Guilds of Gipuzkoa, Eugenio Elduayen, explained to Efe that it is a decision agreed upon by the Cantabrian purse seine fleet,
understanding that the distribution of their catches is not guaranteed.
The smaller gear boats, which fish near the coast, in principle, would not be included in this agreement, although some could stop due to the rise in the price of fuel.
In Gipuzkoa, the purse seine fleet is made up of around 45 vessels, based mainly in the ports of Pasaia, Getaria, Hondarribia and Orio, Elduayen stated.
The arantzales will participate this Wednesday in the meeting that the Basque Government will hold with the primary sector to analyze the impact of the Ukraine crisis on their activity.
They
are also awaiting the meeting that the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas
, will hold next Monday with his European counterparts and, after which, he plans to meet with the Spanish fishing sector to detail the negotiations.
At the national level,
fishermen have asked for VAT reductions, exemption from payment of Social Security contributions or an increase in "minimis
" aid for the sector.
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